Clarissa Wei

Rooftop at The Hotel Americano

Green Table Crawfish Boil
On Sunday, Green Table inside the Chelsea Market will be hosting a New Orleans-style crawfish boil at 6:30 pm. According to Zagat, chef Brent Sims will be adding his secret ingredient to the peel-and-eat crustaceans, paired with unlimited beer.

The Americano Flamenco Brunch
The Americano will be launching their new weekly Flamenco Brunch featuring contemporary flamenco guitar player Andreas Arnold this Sunday. The restaurant is headed by executive chef Joseph Buenconsejo and features Latin-inspired menu. Some dishes available: huevos a la Mexicana for $14 (two scrambled eggs, onions, tomatoes, peppers, frijoles refritos, salsa verde, tortillas), an acai bowl for $12 (homemade granola, banana), and salmon a la plancha ramps for $23 (maitake mushrooms, spring onion, beurre rouge).

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Baohaus honcho Eddie Huang and Lure Fishbar's Josh Capon.

A few photos from this weekend's giant food event, The Great GoogaMooga. Read a full recap here.

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Center stage at GoogaMooga in Prospect Park. Check out more photos from GoogaMooga here.

There is no denying that Saturday's GoogaMooga was a mess. Lines poured into one another and waits topped over an hour. Beer cards were sold and then couldn't be redeemed. Food and drink ran out. All in all, it was not a good scene. But did you really expect anything different? This was a first run festival in a first-time venue. Even Woodstock (not that this was anywhere as epic as Woodstock) had plenty of problems! The big difference (well, one of the hundred differences)? No smartphones. In 1969, the revelers were unable to air their grievances on Twitter (or tweet post-production about how there was no service for tweeting) for the world to read -- then have their tweets picked up and re-posted on blogs. At Woodstock everybody just got stoned.

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The second annual Cookies For Kids' Cancer Bake Sale will take place tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. outside of the Flatiron Building on 23rd Street.

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Millesime

Talk about an extremely cheap eat. Millesime, a Murray Hill restaurant inside the Carlton Hotel on Madison Avenue will be offering an insanely priced three-course prix fixe menu during lunch and dinner service today. And when we say insanely priced, we mean insanely cheap.

The price tag: $1.25 per person.

It is vintage prices ("millesime" actually means "vintage" in French) for a vintage building.
The restaurant will be opening the original doors to the 1904 building, which leads right into the restaurant from 29th Street. The door originally opened in 1904 as the entrance to the Seville Hotel.

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French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF) is holding "the Flavor Lab" with flavorist Marie Wright on Tuesday at 7 p.m. Wright will take attendees behind the scenes to sample the artistry of cheese flavors.

This entire week, your lunch can go toward helping feed 37 children. City Harvest's Skip Lunch, Fight Hunger campaign begins on the 14th, and individuals can pledge to skip lunch and donate the money they would've spent on food to help fight hunger in the city.

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Clarissa Wei

Fork in the Road headed over to the Hell's Kitchen Gourmet Food Bazaar on Sunday. It was essentially a gathering of no more than a dozen food trucks at the end of the Hell's Kitchen flea market. At around 1 p.m., there wasn't that much foot traffic in the food section, and truck employees could be seen lingering around to pass time.

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Clarissa Wei

Madison Square Eats is back for another spring at Worth Square until June 1. The outdoor food-cart gathering is one of the best fairs in New York City, and we have for you a sneak peek at the festivities. The gathering occurs every day from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and consists of a variety of vendors--from the well-known Momofuku Milk Bar to first-timer Antica Focacceria (who comes straight from Italy).

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Mother's Day is coming up on Sunday, and here at Fork in the Road, we've rounded up some restaurant deals and street fairs across the city to ease the planning process.

Free stuff

1) Toloache 50
A complimentary mimosa is offered for all mothers at brunch. A $30 prix fixe brunch is offered, including unlimited mimosas, a choice of main course such as chilaquiles, and pan dulce de leche.

2) Yerba Buena Perry and Yerba Buena Avenue A
Mothers who come after 5 p.m. receive a $20 gift card. Some menu items: ensalada de langosta ($18) with lobster, avocado, passion fruit aji Amarillo vinaigrette, and tacos de cangrejo ($15) with crispy soft-shelled crab.

3) Kutsher's Tribeca
From Zach Kutsher himself: "At dinner service, all moms will receive a complimentary glass of prosecco and some onion rolls to stuff in their purse for later. The side of guilt is free."

Good Value

1) DBGB Kitchen and Bar
Brunch a la carte from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., or three courses for $27.

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The coveted necklace of the night.

The James Beard Awards, a night when chefs and media collide at Lincoln Center to hobnob in crowded press rooms then drunkenly spill beer on each other at the after parties--this is the only time of the year you'll see straight-laced restaurants like Eleven Madison Park and Gramercy Tavern swap ambiance music for thumping Pitbull and Beastie Boys.

But it isn't all fun and games. There's networking to be done and awards to hand out. We cornered three of the night's winners (well, Ted Allen won his award at the broadcasting arm of the ceremony on Friday night) to catch their thoughts and offer felicitations before they headed back to the scrum.

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